Are you able to imagine?

A lot of people tell me how bad the world is and how many bad things happen all around the globe, the media tells me everyday. There are also people who talk a lot about money, insurances and the risks of life. I know about all this!

It just makes me worried about my own security, my family, my friends and all the bad things around the globe. Worries lead to more worries, I actually train myself to worry.

So what I do from now on, everyday:

Once a day, I take me a few moments to imagine a world I dream of.

I imagine a world,
where we all live in peace together,
where people are happy to share,
where people give love, where people share a smile,
where people help each other,
where we all live in balance with our environment,
where we all enjoy time,
where we all have enough time to enjoy life, our families, our friends and our great nature.

This is just an Idea, but everyday, when I imagine this world, I feel good. I feel this world! I don't care about the question how we can achieve this world, I just feel good at least once a day.

Reality starts with a thought, with an idea, with fantasy and with a feeling. Our fantasies are the basis for our reality.

I would be happy if you do the same and spread the word, think about it and enjoy a good feeling everyday.

A Snippet from the book “Demian” written by Hermann Hesse

Demians thinking while he has a talk with Pistorious, who failed to be the prophet of a new Church.

And at this point I felt the truth burning within me like a sharp flame, that there was some role for everybody but it was not one which he himself could choose, re-cast and regulate to his own liking. One had no right to want new gods, no right at all to want to give the world anything of that sort! There was but one duty for a grown man; it was to seek the way to himself, to become resolute within, to grope his way forward wherever that might lead him. The discovery shook me profoundly; it was the fruit of this experience. I had often toyed with pictures of the future, dreamed of roles which might be assigned to me – as a poet, maybe, or prophet or painter or kindred vocation. All that was futile. I was not there to write poetry, to preach or paint; neither I nor any other man was there for that purpose. They were only incidental things. There was only one true vocation for everybody – to find the way to himself. He might end as poet, lunatic, prophet or criminal – that was not his affair; ultimately it was of no account. His affair was to discover his own destiny, not something of his own choosing, and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Anything else was merely a half life, an attempt at evasion, an escape into the ideals of the masses, complacency and fear of his inner soul. The new picture rose before me, sacred and awe-inspiring, a hundred times, glimpsed, possibly often expressed and now experienced for the first time. I was an experiment on the part of nature, a 'throw' into the unknown, perhaps for nothing and my only vocation was to allow this 'throw' to work itself out in my innermost being, feel its will within me and make it wholly mine. That or nothing!

Ganz ohne Wertung oder Meinung, was man so alles liest beim Reisen, Hermann Hesse und dann auch noch in Englisch.

The best snippets from the book "Zen und die Kunst ein Motorrad zu warten"

Das Buch hat mir Joachim mitgegeben und ich hab es immer noch! Es ist teils schleppend zu lesen, aber echt brauchbar.

"...............Reisst man aber eine Fabrik ein oder revoltiert gegen eine Regierung oder unterlässt es, ein Motorrad zu reparieren, nur weil es sich dabei um ein System handelt, heißt das, Wirkungen anstelle von Ursachen anzugreifen; und solange nur die Wirkungen angegriffen werden, ist keine Veränderung möglich. Das wahre System, das eigentliche System ist der derzeitige Aufbau unseres systematischen Denkens selbst, die Rationalität selbst, und wenn man eine Fabrik niederreisst, jedoch die Rationalität, die sie hervorgebracht hat, stehen lässt, dann wird die Rationalität einfach eine neue Fabrik hervorbringen. Wenn eine Revolution eine systematische Regierung vernichtet, die systematischen Denkmuster, die diese Regierung hervorbrachten, jedoch unangetastet lässt, dann werden sich diese Denkmuster in der nachfolgenden Regierung wiederholen.........."

"...............Ein treuer Diener der Kirche muss sich in einer solchen Lage so verhalten, als hätte er die Drohungen nicht vernommen. Sein Hauptziel ist nicht, den Mitgliedern der Gemeinde zu dienen, sondern immer, Gott zu dienen..............."

Auf jeden Fall lesenswert!